The eye-watering amount Meghan Markle got paid per episode in Suits

was reportedly paid a staggering £41,000 per episode during her time in the show, it has been claimed.

The Duchess of Sussex may now be well known around the world as the wife of with the pair tying the knot at a lavish ceremony in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in May 2018.

But before she married into the Royal Family, the duchess was well-established in as an actress.

Her , a paralegal in legal drama hit Suits.

Meghan starred in seven seasons of the hugely successful show which ran from 2011 to 2019.

According to the , the duchess was paid £41,000 ($50,000) per episode of the show. The Daily Mail has not been able to verify these figures.

Back in 2015, Meghan wrote on her now-defunct lifestyle blog, The Tig, about getting the role for Suits.

She wrote: “First, I was a girl at an audition. Then, I was a girl who got the part. Now I’m a woman who’s starting the fifth season of that show.

“I remember that day like it was yesterday. My cheeks still hurt from how hard I smiled.”

In 2017, during a panel discussion to mark the show’s 100th episode, Meghan said: “We were in a group email the other day, and I was saying we’d all lived in the same corporate housing – so on top of working together, we were living together – which makes a whole different dynamic. We just became this whole family right out the gate.”

Elsewhere, she said of her character in the show: “I am so happy… she’s worked so hard and I love that, as a role model, how she’s been crafted to balance it all and now have this place at the firm where she really knows her standing and her office isn’t just because she’s a good researcher, it’s because she’s an associate. She’s really earned that spot.”

The duchess left the show in 2018 after getting married to .

Two years later, the couple would step down as senior working royals and move to the US, where they now reside.